Tombstone epitaph., 1887-08-06
NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
The Sensible Conclusion Arrived at After
 Two Interviews.

One day this week the recording Sec retary of the Can'tgetaway Club inter- viewed two returned sisters, with the fol- lowing result. The EPIrAPH thinks i, detects a grain of envy on the part of the Secretary, but gives place to the inter- view all the same;
 "Ah, Mrs N., so you have returned from your summer outing. Did you enjoy your trip?'
 "Oh splendidly Had such good time."
 "Ah, yes, you were out at C.'s ranch were you no,7 Have they a fine placer
 "Not much of a house-only 3.room cabin; it does seem nce to get back to my own comfortable place"
 "Was 1t cool out there?"
 "Oh, yes, lovely; warm in town?"
 "Yes, warm most ofthe time; it is so to-day.
 "To-day! why think this is lovely day;it was great deal warmer out in the mountains"
 "Indeed! then we here certainly had the better of you. Did you enjoy the rambles over the ranch?"
 "Mercy, no; didn't go out much, am so afraid of taran,ulas and snakes, you know. Tombstone is so awful Hull isn't it?'
 "Oh, yes, it must seem so to you, after all the gay times of a ranch in the m6un- tains.'
 "Gay! I wasn't out of the house hardly while was there We went to bed with the chickens and got up with the flies. Flies do get up so early, and they won't let one sleep. Is there anything in the Tombstone market to eat; I'm just starv- ed for fresh vegetables. Didn't have thing of that kind, and actually no milk, on cattle ranch too. must see what can find to eat, so good morning."
 The foregoing conversation having been heard between two of our ladies was an induCement to find out the senti- ments of others who had had trip, so one that returned from California was sought and interviewed
 "So glad, Mrs. K, to see you have re- turned; been having a lovely time, of course"
 "Indeed have for two months, can't begin to tell you all the good time that I had"
 No doubt, went to the theatre quite often, etc."
 "No; didn't get out much, the chil- dren took up my time so, and nearly all my friends were away from home on their summer trips, and of course couldn't go out alone"
 "Lively in California nowT'
 "Well should say so; everybody wild about land, buying and selling"
 "Does everybody sel?"
 "Oh, yes, nobody buys to keep; they only buy to sell again."
 "Where do the improvements come in!"
 "Oh, they will come after awhile, but everybody wants to sell now and make money"
 "How much will the last man make wno has no one to sell to?"
 "Nobody expects to be the last man, you know; invested little myself, hope I will make something, enough to pay my expenses anyhow, such an expensive trip"
 w thought California was such cheap place to live?'
 "lt is, of course, much cheaper than Tombstone; but de spend so much when gs there; don't understand it."
 "But then it would have cost SO much more to live here, that it makes up for the expense of your trip"
 "Oh, no, but then had to have change, you know, and it would have really benefited me, lift wasn't for that terrible hot dusty ride across the desert. The thermometer was J24 degrees Tn the cars the day come home, But then I had my trip, you know"
 We leave our readers to count up the benefits derived from either one of the outings described in these conversations, while we mentally turn to those most de- luded of all tourists, the Campers. out"